ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that for at least several realignments within the university that will help retool the university and reimagine it as a technology that helps to create a planetary rather than an anthropocentric understanding of our world. One technology found in monotheistic traditions, the idea that humans alone are created in god’s image, has arguably been used to justify sexism, racism, and anthropocentrism and is in part responsible for the contemporary ecological crises. The transcendent nature of God, and the place of humans the rest of the natural world, becomes justification for transforming passive nature through science. One of the main sources of the hyper-individual in Western understandings of the human is found in the theological anthropology of the Omni-God. The “culture wars” between emerging scientific disciplines and religious authority helped shape education into the primary disciplinary split we know today: humanities and sciences.
